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Chicago examiner vol xviii no 21 a m c â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ * sunday Chicago november 25 1917 sunday price five cents7i bomb kills 10 in milwaukee u.s limits profits in meat policemen hurled to death in station anarchist missile intended for church explodes in squadroom while officers are examining mechanism milwaukee nov 24 ten persons nine of them police detectives and â– one a woman wexe instantly i killed to-night when a bomb ex i ploded in the squad room of the ; central street police station the bomb was the product of an anarchist hand intended to | kill august guilliani pastor of the italian evangelist church it was found in the rev guil iiahi's church by miss maude ; richter church organist she \ sent an italian boy tony mas : sone with it to the central sta ! tion and handed it to station : keeper deckert this may be dangerous so | please be careful of it the or ganist said the station keeper carried it into the squad room where ee tectives and police coming on or just going off duty were assem bled blast rocks buildings ' for blocks around look at the cannon i've got he said holding out the i bomb an eight-inch cylinder of i steel for the men to inspect he pulled out a steel stopper jin the end the men gathered close bending over tu look at the infernal machine looks as if it might be nitro glycerin the station keeper re marked a moment later there was a i flash and a roar buildings i rocked for blocks around the smoke cleared where seven detectives and the station keep er had stood was a mass of wreckage and fragments of hu man bodies upstairs in a room over the squad room edward spin 1 police switchboard opera was at work prisoners are stunned ! and thrown in panic the bomb was filled with j slugs one of them lore through j the floor and ended his life on a bench outside the squad room a woman sat waiting to i make a complaint to the police she was instantly killed in cells in the rear of the sqii's i room were twelve prisoners tsy | explosion blew them off their tftf i left them bruised and terror-stricken control of packers assumed by nation small firms may make 2 1-2 cents on every 1 of business armour swift cudahy mor ris and wilson 9 per cent the first step to reguiate the price of meat was taken by the unit ed states food administration yesterday joseph p cotton chief of the meat division announced that no packer would be permitted to make more hat 2.5 cents profits on each dollar's worth of meat sold an additional limit of 9 per cent ou the average capital necessarily i'.sed in the business was placed on the five big packing companies â€” ar mour & co cudahy & co morris & co swift & co and wilson & co the food administration asserts the plan will lower and stabilize the price of meat protect the small packers and weld the five large concerns into one of the most vital instruments for carrying on the war stable prices in u s motive mr cotton's first regulations fol low the system to be adopted by the food administration for restrict ing the earnings of the packers means to abolish speculative prof its and to prevent unfair profits so that the prices of meat to the retailer and consumer may be sta ble and cheaper . \ there are in the country hun dreds of packing concerns many of them small which slaughter live stock and sell meat but which are not large enough or strong enough to carry great stocks nor do they carry their manufacturing processes in connection with live stock products to great refine ments exception made of large plants there are however five con cerns relatively much larger which have many establishments storage plants branch houses cars and fa cilities for nation-wide distribution these large packers do carry out to great refinements manufactur ing processes in live stock products and allied products not only is their business more diversified and more stable than the smaller packers but they carry at all times large stocks it is essential that the smaller packer shall continue his operations to the fullest extent and his earn ings in view of his risk must be liberal the system of regulation which restricts his earnings must be simple and easy to apply afirr investigation and consid eration it lias been determined to uermit the packers except the five large packrrs whom we shall apeak of in a moment to earn an annual profit equal to 2.5 per cent of their total annual gales packers expense to be deducted this profit is to be net after expenses are paid interest on money borrowed will be treated as an expense but expenses do not include federal taxes which the packer must pay himself out of his french destroy 1 030 airplanes in 10 months paris nov 23 ten hundred and thirty enemy airplanes were destroyed by french avia tors during the past ten months according to an official statement one hundred and twenty were shot down over the french lines and 397 over the german trenches 513 were reported as wrecked over the enemy lines of which confirmation is not of ficial in addition twenty-two german captive balloons were destroyed chicagoans top sheridan's list by ben e kendall 3,000 commissions for rookies reach training camp to be awarded tuesday headquarters reserve of ficers training camp fort sheridan nov 24 three thou sand commissions for successful fort sheridan rookies arrived in camp from washington to-day they are not to be awarded until tuesday but among those receiving high honors are men prominent in Chicago and Illinois to Chicago rookies go the honor of winning the highest ranks in all branches of the service in the list of six who were made majors five are chicagoans and among the 131 captains forty-one are from Chicago 48 Chicago captains four well-known chicagoans are majors of infantry and one is a major of field artillery in the list of for ty-eight captains of infantry sixteen are men from Chicago and Illinois and i in the list of first and second lieu tenants more than 40 per cent were furnished from Illinois in the field artillery only four men from Chicago received captaincies but Chicago first lieutenants lead all the rest publication of names of the suc cessful candidates cannot be made until tuesday by order of the war department the whole list reads something on the order of a directory of young men from the leading fami lies and business concerns of the middle west inynany instances former employes have been given higher ranks than their former employers and in one in stance a policeman of a small western town has been made a captain while the mayor of the same town is a sec ond lieutenant in the same branch of the service in the Illinois camp a former high official has been made a lieutenant while his former stenographer has been commissioned a captain to haste equipment reports were received from author itative sources last night that the majority of the men who receive com missions when the second officers training camp at fort sheridan closes next tuesday will almost immediate ly be ordered to duty in france at the request of the officers in charge of the camp state street mer chants last night ordered their stores kept open to-day in order that the men may buy their uniforms before sailing admiral harris gets capps place washington nov 24 â€” secretary of the navy daniels late this after noon announced the appointment of rear admiral frederic r karris to succeed rear admiral capps as head of the emergency fleet corporation of the united states shipping board rear admiral harris forty-two years old is the youngest man in the navy holding that rank in hi3 own right since appointment to his present position in january 1916 he has directed the expenditure of 100 000,000 in naval station construction work and has become known as a producer u s permits r r pool as need of war violation of sherman law agreed on by government as only way to end nation's traffic crisis all lines east of Chicago will operate as single company using equipment and terminals washington nov 24 at a con ference between the railway war board and united states officials to day it was agreed that the railways east of Chicago should be operated a s one centralized system this will permit maximum traffic efficiency cars and tracks will be pooled re gardless of ownership all members of the railroad board were present they are fairfax har rison president of the southern chairman samuel rea president of the pennsylvania hale holden pres ident of the burlington julius krutt schnitt chairman of the southern pa cific and howard elliott president of the new york new haven & hart ford food administrator hoover prior ity director lovett fuel administra tor garfield and chairman hurley of the shipping board also were pres ent to divide locomotives the operating program calls for the following diversion of locomotives employes and machine tools from western to eastern railroads pooling of all tracks and equipment in the east wherever practicable diversion from congested lines of all freight that can be handled by any open route the roads will beoperated by a committee of vice presidents of the lines under the general direction of the war board itself comprising five of the country's railway heads the committee of vice presidents will be given fuli authority to adopt any measures found necessary to accom plish a unified operation the coal famine in certain parts of the united states is chiefly due to the inability of the roads to haul the coal on account of the press of other traffic with a free inter change of tracks at the mines it is believed this condition will be re lieved suggested by vanderlip the agreement follows the sugges tion made by frank a vanderlip in testimony before the interstate com merce commission last week he said that unless the prohibition against pooling in the interstate com merce act and the sherman anti trust law could be removed govern ment ownership would be the only solution fuel administrator gar field brought up the subject to-day it is understood definite assurance has been given that the government will not stand in the way of the new pooling arrangements members of the interstate com merce commission attended the con ference and offered no objection to the plan ohio man to succeed dr garfield report columbcs 0 nov 24 homer iv johnson wealthy cleveland lawyer and fuel administrator for ohio is to succeed dr henry a garfield as national fuel administrator accord ing to reports mr johnson's plan of the pooling shipping arrangement fs expected to solve many fuel trans portation difficulties victory is certain says lloyd george london nov 24 â€” premier lloyd george to-day told shipbuilders we are fighting for our lives if we are secure on the seas we have got them we have got them in a deadly grip and will not let so and the german knows it i u.s destroyer takes u-boat and 40 men destroyers depth shells cripple submarine germans surren dering open valves and sink it one wounded dies on american vessel 40 in all captured daniels gives thrilling report washington nov 24 official reports made public by secretary daniels here to-day reveal that two american destroyers damaged and i later captured a german submarine together with its entire crew the prisoners are understood to number forty while one of the destroyers was attaching a line to the u-boat pre paratory to towing her to port a member of the crew which had sur rendered secreted himself below he opened the sea cocks and the sub marine sank one german was drowned through this act of treachery sighted at 400 yards another german was wounded by american gunfire before the capture he - was given the best of care but died aboard the destroyer in his statement secretary daniels does not give the date or the location of the encounter which was undoubt edly in the war zone he merely states dispatches from admiral sims state that a u-boat has been ac counted for by american destroy ers operating in european wa ters while on patrol duty a destroyer sighted a periscope 400 yards off immediately ringing up full speed the commanding officer headed his craft to pass a few yards i.head of the submarine as the destroyer passed over the l'-boat's course a depth charge was dropped this evidently caused damage to the u-boat which shortly after ward broached about 500 yards away fire immediately was opened on the submarine by two of our destroyers which circled about their target the submarine did not return the fire and was evidently disabled one of the destroyers got a line to her intending to tow her but the boat soon sank diver crew surrenders the u-boat is understood to have appeared on the surface with her rudder blown away three minutes after the depth bomb was discharged the destroyers at once opened fire a moment later the hatches aboard the submarine were thrown open officers and crew filed on deck with their hands above their heads i in signal of surrender immediately the american de stroyers ceased firing one american vessel pulled up alongside the u-boat tow lines were being fastened to the captured craft and the germans were being taken aboard when the u-boat â– began to sink destroyers sink diver is veresion of london london nov 24 â€” the british ver sion of the sinking of a u-boat if it were the same craft referred to in secretary daniels statement is as follows with flags flying the two ameri u.s weather forecast Chicago ami vicinity â€” partly cloudy sunday and monday not much chnnjerc in temperatures moderate northwest winds temperature for twenty-four hours ending 2 a m : highest 33 lowest 22 mean 28 normal temperature for the day 36 deficiency since january 1 450 debtee sunrise to-day 6:52 sunset 4:22 complete goternment report on i'age 4 part 6 daniels to ask 50,000 more men for navy washington nov 24 when congress reconvenes secre tary daniels will ask authority to increase the enlisted strength of the navy by 50,000 these .. i ditional men will be used in man ning the destroyers and other naval auxiliaries under construc tion and to replace civilian crews on transports the present authorized strength of the navy is 150,000 of which 87,000 is permanant the total enlistment is more than 147,000 it is understood secretary daniels will recommend the present au thorized strength be made per manent * the marine corps will ask an increase from 20,000 men to a full division n.y.port under martial law edict takes effect at midnight to-night order to extend to all other harbors washington nov 24 â€” the united states government to-night declared the port of new york a military district beginning at mid night to-morrow as soon as pos sible all other ports in the country will be put under martial law with all manner of supplies and equipment going forth every day for the support of the war of the allies no chance will be left in new york for alien enemies to work the havoc they have in the past the water front will be patrolled by soldiers of the regular army car rying loaded guns their orders will be to shoot any person whether a citizen or enemy alien who refuses to obey their orders to halt or to an swer their questions the sentries will wear dress uni form to distinguish them from the enlisted men on other duty the department of justice has au thorized specific instructions rela tive to the control of alien enemies in water-front areas conforming to the president's proclamation of no vember 16 it also has authorized instructions to persons owning or op erating water-front shipping facili ties air post to brother of viscount northcliffe london nov 23 â€” lord rother mere brother of viscount northcliffe to-day accepted the post of air min ister he succeeds lord cowdray who resigned after northcliffe had criticized certain members of lloyd george's cabinet u s steamer sunk by u-boat 40 saved washington nov 24 â€” the un armed american steamer schuylkill has been torpedoed and sunk in the mediterranean forty of her crew were taken off in safety the schuyl kill formerly was operated in the great lakes by the pennsylvania railroad robert edeson sued by his wife new york nov 24 â€” robert kde son the actor was sued for divorce to-day by georgia bdeson details were not made public gen byng captures key to cambrai moeuvres taken by british fon-j taine evacuated and burning 100 german guns seized in drive 30 tanks shot to pieces british army headquar ters in france nov 24 british troops to-day captured ; by storm mouevres the key to cam 1 brai on the west and turned its ' guns against the germans â€¢ on the south they drove their ad ] vanced lines to within two miles of ; the great german base a clear gain ; of a mile in twenty-four hours the village of fontaine notre dame once won by byng's men j and recaptured by the germans is in flames and has been evacuated by its teuton defenders while the british are waiting until the fire subsides before occupying it the germans have retreated to proville a suburb of cambrai the number of heavy guns captured thus far in the cambrai offensive is estimated at at least 100 british winning vital height west of city the germans on the western side of the city at last reports were still clinging desperately to bourlon vil lage beyond mouevres but in bour lon wood adjoining the british were slowly gaining the upper hand and probably by now are in possession of this forest height from which guns can have a clear sweep to the heart of cambrai prisoners are still coming back in squadrons from the fighting front and the dead and wounded on both sides are high owing to the open fighting tanks crack hard positions for infantry yesterday bourlon wood was also the scene of terrific fighting but the j british tanks turned the trick they â– battered a path through the center i of the wood and left the infantry to finish its conquest to-day this they | were doing rapidly at last reports : fighting hand-to-hand battles at the ! point of the bayonet with the ger mans in the thick undergrowth and pushing them steadily back resist ing in addition a charge with fresh troops launched by the german com mander from the adjoining village the tanks are also given the credit of firing fontaine they lumbered into the center of the village im pervious to the rifle and machine ! gun fire which the germans poured from the windows and doors of houses and started the havoc which drove the defenders out tlie british also advanced slightly in the neighborhood of cailtaing to day having repulsed two strong ger j man counter attacks ! cambrai doomed at next blow belief london nov 24 â€” cambrai will fall at byng's next strong blow this was the universal verdict hero lo i night as fresh reports of the british | successes were received it was re garded as certain that by this time byng's heavy guns had been brought up and were battering at the doomed german base the main gains of he british with in twenty-four hour as revealed by both official and unofficial dispatches i were nna.de in the neighborhoods of | moeuvres buliecourt fontaine notre ' dame inchy and queant dead and injured in explosion milwaukee nov 9j following are the identified dead and injured in the police station bomb explosion the dead caswin frank m detective 459 eighteenth street deckert henry station keep er 720 center street kaiser fred w detective 519 farwell avenue o'brien david detective 466 prospect avenue seehawer ' charles detec tive 1172 richards street spindler edward operator 3919 walnut street stecker stephen h de tective 623 center street templin albert detective 516 madison street walker miss catherine 451 sixth street weiler paul detective 556 twenty-seventh avenue the injured bergin herman detective 1079 seventh street hartmen louis a detective 3012 cherry street robert flood jack hannifin martin fallen bart maloney charles andrews north cliffe hints u.s coup best week of war markec 1 by successful parley de clares viscojnt london nov 24 â€” viscount north cliffe to-night said this has been distinctly the best week of the war i refer not only to general byng's success but to that of colonel house and premier lloyd george who have been but toning things up to use an expres sion of the colonel's it would not be wise to talk of details but as Â£ never have been backward in criticizing inefficiency i should be lacking in justice if 1 did not speak of the high effi ciency of this week's conference there was no glorious british constitution and fourth of july hot air about the proceedings it was realized time is the most valuable asset of war there was very utile banqueting and there were no parades yet i venture to say the greatest move toward vic tory yet made in any theater of the wat was effected in london this week house denies pauley ox aims paris nov 24 â€” colonel e m house head of the american mission declared to-day war aims will not be ' discussed either at the interallied conference or the war council he s;iid the mission will consider only co-ord:n::tiou of resources arid co operation in prosecuting the war colonel house declared the inter allied ccuncil will be permanent â– dealing with shipping finances niu 1 nitions and other economic and in dustrial phases jholsk pqiscare's tilest oscar t crosby assistant secre tary of the treasury will represent america in the conference the interallied conference will be in session three days premier clem j enceau will preside the smaller allied states are rep ! resented premier costa and former j minister soares are attending for portugal greece is represented by i premier venizelos and serbia by pre ' mlfr l'achitch colonel house was entertained to ! day at luncheon with other members i of the mission ambassador william i graves sharp and the embassy staff by piesident poincare at the elysee i palace continued on bth page 2d column continued on 2d page sth column this edition consists of iâ€”rem,1 â€” rem sâ€”city5 â€” city life 2 â€” sews movies . 3 â€” autos drama sports u â€” want ads 4 â€” editorial real estate science financial society 7 â€” magazine fiction - bâ€”comics.8 â€” comics f over the top empey's new book starts to-day

Chicago examiner vol xviii no 21 a m c â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ * sunday Chicago november 25 1917 sunday price five cents7i bomb kills 10 in milwaukee u.s limits profits in meat policemen hurled to death in station anarchist missile intended for church explodes in squadroom while officers are examining mechanism milwaukee nov 24 ten persons nine of them police detectives and â– one a woman wexe instantly i killed to-night when a bomb ex i ploded in the squad room of the ; central street police station the bomb was the product of an anarchist hand intended to | kill august guilliani pastor of the italian evangelist church it was found in the rev guil iiahi's church by miss maude ; richter church organist she \ sent an italian boy tony mas : sone with it to the central sta ! tion and handed it to station : keeper deckert this may be dangerous so | please be careful of it the or ganist said the station keeper carried it into the squad room where ee tectives and police coming on or just going off duty were assem bled blast rocks buildings ' for blocks around look at the cannon i've got he said holding out the i bomb an eight-inch cylinder of i steel for the men to inspect he pulled out a steel stopper jin the end the men gathered close bending over tu look at the infernal machine looks as if it might be nitro glycerin the station keeper re marked a moment later there was a i flash and a roar buildings i rocked for blocks around the smoke cleared where seven detectives and the station keep er had stood was a mass of wreckage and fragments of hu man bodies upstairs in a room over the squad room edward spin 1 police switchboard opera was at work prisoners are stunned ! and thrown in panic the bomb was filled with j slugs one of them lore through j the floor and ended his life on a bench outside the squad room a woman sat waiting to i make a complaint to the police she was instantly killed in cells in the rear of the sqii's i room were twelve prisoners tsy | explosion blew them off their tftf i left them bruised and terror-stricken control of packers assumed by nation small firms may make 2 1-2 cents on every 1 of business armour swift cudahy mor ris and wilson 9 per cent the first step to reguiate the price of meat was taken by the unit ed states food administration yesterday joseph p cotton chief of the meat division announced that no packer would be permitted to make more hat 2.5 cents profits on each dollar's worth of meat sold an additional limit of 9 per cent ou the average capital necessarily i'.sed in the business was placed on the five big packing companies â€” ar mour & co cudahy & co morris & co swift & co and wilson & co the food administration asserts the plan will lower and stabilize the price of meat protect the small packers and weld the five large concerns into one of the most vital instruments for carrying on the war stable prices in u s motive mr cotton's first regulations fol low the system to be adopted by the food administration for restrict ing the earnings of the packers means to abolish speculative prof its and to prevent unfair profits so that the prices of meat to the retailer and consumer may be sta ble and cheaper . \ there are in the country hun dreds of packing concerns many of them small which slaughter live stock and sell meat but which are not large enough or strong enough to carry great stocks nor do they carry their manufacturing processes in connection with live stock products to great refine ments exception made of large plants there are however five con cerns relatively much larger which have many establishments storage plants branch houses cars and fa cilities for nation-wide distribution these large packers do carry out to great refinements manufactur ing processes in live stock products and allied products not only is their business more diversified and more stable than the smaller packers but they carry at all times large stocks it is essential that the smaller packer shall continue his operations to the fullest extent and his earn ings in view of his risk must be liberal the system of regulation which restricts his earnings must be simple and easy to apply afirr investigation and consid eration it lias been determined to uermit the packers except the five large packrrs whom we shall apeak of in a moment to earn an annual profit equal to 2.5 per cent of their total annual gales packers expense to be deducted this profit is to be net after expenses are paid interest on money borrowed will be treated as an expense but expenses do not include federal taxes which the packer must pay himself out of his french destroy 1 030 airplanes in 10 months paris nov 23 ten hundred and thirty enemy airplanes were destroyed by french avia tors during the past ten months according to an official statement one hundred and twenty were shot down over the french lines and 397 over the german trenches 513 were reported as wrecked over the enemy lines of which confirmation is not of ficial in addition twenty-two german captive balloons were destroyed chicagoans top sheridan's list by ben e kendall 3,000 commissions for rookies reach training camp to be awarded tuesday headquarters reserve of ficers training camp fort sheridan nov 24 three thou sand commissions for successful fort sheridan rookies arrived in camp from washington to-day they are not to be awarded until tuesday but among those receiving high honors are men prominent in Chicago and Illinois to Chicago rookies go the honor of winning the highest ranks in all branches of the service in the list of six who were made majors five are chicagoans and among the 131 captains forty-one are from Chicago 48 Chicago captains four well-known chicagoans are majors of infantry and one is a major of field artillery in the list of for ty-eight captains of infantry sixteen are men from Chicago and Illinois and i in the list of first and second lieu tenants more than 40 per cent were furnished from Illinois in the field artillery only four men from Chicago received captaincies but Chicago first lieutenants lead all the rest publication of names of the suc cessful candidates cannot be made until tuesday by order of the war department the whole list reads something on the order of a directory of young men from the leading fami lies and business concerns of the middle west inynany instances former employes have been given higher ranks than their former employers and in one in stance a policeman of a small western town has been made a captain while the mayor of the same town is a sec ond lieutenant in the same branch of the service in the Illinois camp a former high official has been made a lieutenant while his former stenographer has been commissioned a captain to haste equipment reports were received from author itative sources last night that the majority of the men who receive com missions when the second officers training camp at fort sheridan closes next tuesday will almost immediate ly be ordered to duty in france at the request of the officers in charge of the camp state street mer chants last night ordered their stores kept open to-day in order that the men may buy their uniforms before sailing admiral harris gets capps place washington nov 24 â€” secretary of the navy daniels late this after noon announced the appointment of rear admiral frederic r karris to succeed rear admiral capps as head of the emergency fleet corporation of the united states shipping board rear admiral harris forty-two years old is the youngest man in the navy holding that rank in hi3 own right since appointment to his present position in january 1916 he has directed the expenditure of 100 000,000 in naval station construction work and has become known as a producer u s permits r r pool as need of war violation of sherman law agreed on by government as only way to end nation's traffic crisis all lines east of Chicago will operate as single company using equipment and terminals washington nov 24 at a con ference between the railway war board and united states officials to day it was agreed that the railways east of Chicago should be operated a s one centralized system this will permit maximum traffic efficiency cars and tracks will be pooled re gardless of ownership all members of the railroad board were present they are fairfax har rison president of the southern chairman samuel rea president of the pennsylvania hale holden pres ident of the burlington julius krutt schnitt chairman of the southern pa cific and howard elliott president of the new york new haven & hart ford food administrator hoover prior ity director lovett fuel administra tor garfield and chairman hurley of the shipping board also were pres ent to divide locomotives the operating program calls for the following diversion of locomotives employes and machine tools from western to eastern railroads pooling of all tracks and equipment in the east wherever practicable diversion from congested lines of all freight that can be handled by any open route the roads will beoperated by a committee of vice presidents of the lines under the general direction of the war board itself comprising five of the country's railway heads the committee of vice presidents will be given fuli authority to adopt any measures found necessary to accom plish a unified operation the coal famine in certain parts of the united states is chiefly due to the inability of the roads to haul the coal on account of the press of other traffic with a free inter change of tracks at the mines it is believed this condition will be re lieved suggested by vanderlip the agreement follows the sugges tion made by frank a vanderlip in testimony before the interstate com merce commission last week he said that unless the prohibition against pooling in the interstate com merce act and the sherman anti trust law could be removed govern ment ownership would be the only solution fuel administrator gar field brought up the subject to-day it is understood definite assurance has been given that the government will not stand in the way of the new pooling arrangements members of the interstate com merce commission attended the con ference and offered no objection to the plan ohio man to succeed dr garfield report columbcs 0 nov 24 homer iv johnson wealthy cleveland lawyer and fuel administrator for ohio is to succeed dr henry a garfield as national fuel administrator accord ing to reports mr johnson's plan of the pooling shipping arrangement fs expected to solve many fuel trans portation difficulties victory is certain says lloyd george london nov 24 â€” premier lloyd george to-day told shipbuilders we are fighting for our lives if we are secure on the seas we have got them we have got them in a deadly grip and will not let so and the german knows it i u.s destroyer takes u-boat and 40 men destroyers depth shells cripple submarine germans surren dering open valves and sink it one wounded dies on american vessel 40 in all captured daniels gives thrilling report washington nov 24 official reports made public by secretary daniels here to-day reveal that two american destroyers damaged and i later captured a german submarine together with its entire crew the prisoners are understood to number forty while one of the destroyers was attaching a line to the u-boat pre paratory to towing her to port a member of the crew which had sur rendered secreted himself below he opened the sea cocks and the sub marine sank one german was drowned through this act of treachery sighted at 400 yards another german was wounded by american gunfire before the capture he - was given the best of care but died aboard the destroyer in his statement secretary daniels does not give the date or the location of the encounter which was undoubt edly in the war zone he merely states dispatches from admiral sims state that a u-boat has been ac counted for by american destroy ers operating in european wa ters while on patrol duty a destroyer sighted a periscope 400 yards off immediately ringing up full speed the commanding officer headed his craft to pass a few yards i.head of the submarine as the destroyer passed over the l'-boat's course a depth charge was dropped this evidently caused damage to the u-boat which shortly after ward broached about 500 yards away fire immediately was opened on the submarine by two of our destroyers which circled about their target the submarine did not return the fire and was evidently disabled one of the destroyers got a line to her intending to tow her but the boat soon sank diver crew surrenders the u-boat is understood to have appeared on the surface with her rudder blown away three minutes after the depth bomb was discharged the destroyers at once opened fire a moment later the hatches aboard the submarine were thrown open officers and crew filed on deck with their hands above their heads i in signal of surrender immediately the american de stroyers ceased firing one american vessel pulled up alongside the u-boat tow lines were being fastened to the captured craft and the germans were being taken aboard when the u-boat â– began to sink destroyers sink diver is veresion of london london nov 24 â€” the british ver sion of the sinking of a u-boat if it were the same craft referred to in secretary daniels statement is as follows with flags flying the two ameri u.s weather forecast Chicago ami vicinity â€” partly cloudy sunday and monday not much chnnjerc in temperatures moderate northwest winds temperature for twenty-four hours ending 2 a m : highest 33 lowest 22 mean 28 normal temperature for the day 36 deficiency since january 1 450 debtee sunrise to-day 6:52 sunset 4:22 complete goternment report on i'age 4 part 6 daniels to ask 50,000 more men for navy washington nov 24 when congress reconvenes secre tary daniels will ask authority to increase the enlisted strength of the navy by 50,000 these .. i ditional men will be used in man ning the destroyers and other naval auxiliaries under construc tion and to replace civilian crews on transports the present authorized strength of the navy is 150,000 of which 87,000 is permanant the total enlistment is more than 147,000 it is understood secretary daniels will recommend the present au thorized strength be made per manent * the marine corps will ask an increase from 20,000 men to a full division n.y.port under martial law edict takes effect at midnight to-night order to extend to all other harbors washington nov 24 â€” the united states government to-night declared the port of new york a military district beginning at mid night to-morrow as soon as pos sible all other ports in the country will be put under martial law with all manner of supplies and equipment going forth every day for the support of the war of the allies no chance will be left in new york for alien enemies to work the havoc they have in the past the water front will be patrolled by soldiers of the regular army car rying loaded guns their orders will be to shoot any person whether a citizen or enemy alien who refuses to obey their orders to halt or to an swer their questions the sentries will wear dress uni form to distinguish them from the enlisted men on other duty the department of justice has au thorized specific instructions rela tive to the control of alien enemies in water-front areas conforming to the president's proclamation of no vember 16 it also has authorized instructions to persons owning or op erating water-front shipping facili ties air post to brother of viscount northcliffe london nov 23 â€” lord rother mere brother of viscount northcliffe to-day accepted the post of air min ister he succeeds lord cowdray who resigned after northcliffe had criticized certain members of lloyd george's cabinet u s steamer sunk by u-boat 40 saved washington nov 24 â€” the un armed american steamer schuylkill has been torpedoed and sunk in the mediterranean forty of her crew were taken off in safety the schuyl kill formerly was operated in the great lakes by the pennsylvania railroad robert edeson sued by his wife new york nov 24 â€” robert kde son the actor was sued for divorce to-day by georgia bdeson details were not made public gen byng captures key to cambrai moeuvres taken by british fon-j taine evacuated and burning 100 german guns seized in drive 30 tanks shot to pieces british army headquar ters in france nov 24 british troops to-day captured ; by storm mouevres the key to cam 1 brai on the west and turned its ' guns against the germans â€¢ on the south they drove their ad ] vanced lines to within two miles of ; the great german base a clear gain ; of a mile in twenty-four hours the village of fontaine notre dame once won by byng's men j and recaptured by the germans is in flames and has been evacuated by its teuton defenders while the british are waiting until the fire subsides before occupying it the germans have retreated to proville a suburb of cambrai the number of heavy guns captured thus far in the cambrai offensive is estimated at at least 100 british winning vital height west of city the germans on the western side of the city at last reports were still clinging desperately to bourlon vil lage beyond mouevres but in bour lon wood adjoining the british were slowly gaining the upper hand and probably by now are in possession of this forest height from which guns can have a clear sweep to the heart of cambrai prisoners are still coming back in squadrons from the fighting front and the dead and wounded on both sides are high owing to the open fighting tanks crack hard positions for infantry yesterday bourlon wood was also the scene of terrific fighting but the j british tanks turned the trick they â– battered a path through the center i of the wood and left the infantry to finish its conquest to-day this they | were doing rapidly at last reports : fighting hand-to-hand battles at the ! point of the bayonet with the ger mans in the thick undergrowth and pushing them steadily back resist ing in addition a charge with fresh troops launched by the german com mander from the adjoining village the tanks are also given the credit of firing fontaine they lumbered into the center of the village im pervious to the rifle and machine ! gun fire which the germans poured from the windows and doors of houses and started the havoc which drove the defenders out tlie british also advanced slightly in the neighborhood of cailtaing to day having repulsed two strong ger j man counter attacks ! cambrai doomed at next blow belief london nov 24 â€” cambrai will fall at byng's next strong blow this was the universal verdict hero lo i night as fresh reports of the british | successes were received it was re garded as certain that by this time byng's heavy guns had been brought up and were battering at the doomed german base the main gains of he british with in twenty-four hour as revealed by both official and unofficial dispatches i were nna.de in the neighborhoods of | moeuvres buliecourt fontaine notre ' dame inchy and queant dead and injured in explosion milwaukee nov 9j following are the identified dead and injured in the police station bomb explosion the dead caswin frank m detective 459 eighteenth street deckert henry station keep er 720 center street kaiser fred w detective 519 farwell avenue o'brien david detective 466 prospect avenue seehawer ' charles detec tive 1172 richards street spindler edward operator 3919 walnut street stecker stephen h de tective 623 center street templin albert detective 516 madison street walker miss catherine 451 sixth street weiler paul detective 556 twenty-seventh avenue the injured bergin herman detective 1079 seventh street hartmen louis a detective 3012 cherry street robert flood jack hannifin martin fallen bart maloney charles andrews north cliffe hints u.s coup best week of war markec 1 by successful parley de clares viscojnt london nov 24 â€” viscount north cliffe to-night said this has been distinctly the best week of the war i refer not only to general byng's success but to that of colonel house and premier lloyd george who have been but toning things up to use an expres sion of the colonel's it would not be wise to talk of details but as Â£ never have been backward in criticizing inefficiency i should be lacking in justice if 1 did not speak of the high effi ciency of this week's conference there was no glorious british constitution and fourth of july hot air about the proceedings it was realized time is the most valuable asset of war there was very utile banqueting and there were no parades yet i venture to say the greatest move toward vic tory yet made in any theater of the wat was effected in london this week house denies pauley ox aims paris nov 24 â€” colonel e m house head of the american mission declared to-day war aims will not be ' discussed either at the interallied conference or the war council he s;iid the mission will consider only co-ord:n::tiou of resources arid co operation in prosecuting the war colonel house declared the inter allied ccuncil will be permanent â– dealing with shipping finances niu 1 nitions and other economic and in dustrial phases jholsk pqiscare's tilest oscar t crosby assistant secre tary of the treasury will represent america in the conference the interallied conference will be in session three days premier clem j enceau will preside the smaller allied states are rep ! resented premier costa and former j minister soares are attending for portugal greece is represented by i premier venizelos and serbia by pre ' mlfr l'achitch colonel house was entertained to ! day at luncheon with other members i of the mission ambassador william i graves sharp and the embassy staff by piesident poincare at the elysee i palace continued on bth page 2d column continued on 2d page sth column this edition consists of iâ€”rem,1 â€” rem sâ€”city5 â€” city life 2 â€” sews movies . 3 â€” autos drama sports u â€” want ads 4 â€” editorial real estate science 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